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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beijing or Marmaris?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’s own page.

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Beijing 6, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Marmaris 40: Beijing leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Marmaris 18: Beijing leads by 75 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Marmaris 65: Beijing leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Marmaris 62: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Marmaris 55: Beijing leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Marmaris 38: Beijing leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Marmaris 62: Beijing leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Marmaris 12: Beijing leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Marmaris 50: Beijing leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Marmaris.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingMarmaris
Official languagePutonghuaTurkish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m7 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingMarmaris
City population21,893,09597,818
People per km²1,334111
Museums within 10 km831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.